Data generation device and data generation method, data receiver and data reception method, and data communication system and data communication method

• US 6,999,603 B1
• Filed: 10/28/1999
• Issued: 02/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ito, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): AHMED, SAMIR ANWAR
• Application Number:
  US09/428,756
• Time in Patent Office: 2,301 Days
• Field of Search: 382/103, 382/165, 382/313, 382/317, 345716-726, 725/37, 725/50, 725/136, 725/135, 463/5, 463 51- 54, 463/40, 463/39, 348/460, 348/461, 348/473, 348/474, 348/488, 341/137
• US Class Current: 382/107
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/403 Connection between platform and handheld device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/033 Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor digitisers characterised by the transducing means G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream

Abstract

According to the present invention, it is possible to, when an already available data communication system is used, transmit digital data other than data that is the main communication object of the data communication system.

A data broadcast station (2)of this invention has a digital data encoder (7), which changes, each unit time, the color of part of a moving image based on digital data that is input and generates image data. A data reception terminal (4) which has a moving image display device (10), which displays a moving image based on image data, a light sensing device (12), which senses the light of part of the moving image displayed on the moving image display device (10), and a digital data decoder (13), which detects the change, each unit time, in the color of part of the moving image whose light is sensed by the light sensing device (12) and generates the digital data.

Claims

1. A data receiver for receiving a second image data, the second image data for playing a game on a portable terminal, said second image data comprising image data of a first moving image and digital data encoded as color of part or all of said first moving image, the data receiver including the portable terminal, the portable terminal comprising:

a light sensing means that senses the light of part or all of a second moving image displayed on a display means, said second moving image including said digital data being encoded as the color of part or all of said second moving image data; and

a digital data decoding means that detects the change in each unit time in the color of part or all of said second moving image sensed by said light sensing means and decodes and generates said digital data;

wherein said light sensing means includes a display assembled into said light sensing means and means for displaying a third moving image thereon; and

wherein said third moving image displayed on said display of said light sensing means is generated based on said digital data that is decoded by said digital data decoding means and said third moving image includes a game character for playing the game based said digital data.

2. A data receiver as described in claim 1, wherein said color change at least one of the elements hue, brightness, and chroma changes.

3. A data reception method of receiving a second image data, the second image data for playing a game on a portable terminal, said second image data comprising image data of a first moving image and digital data encoded as color of part or all of said first moving image, the data reception method comprising the steps of:

sensing the light of part or all of said second moving image displayed on a display means with a light sensing means, said second moving image including said digital data being encoded as the color of part or all of said first moving image data; and

detecting a change in each unit time in the color of part or all of said second moving image whose light is sensed and decoding said digital data,

wherein said light sensing means includes a display assembled into said light sensing means and means for displaying a third moving image thereon, and

wherein said displaying of said third moving image on said display of said light sensing means is generated based on said digital data that is decoded by said digital data decoding means and said third moving image includes a game character for playing the game based on said digital data.

4. The data reception method as described in claim 3, wherein said color change at least one of the elements hue, brightness, and chroma changes.

9. A data reception method in accordance with claim 3, further comprising the step of removing said second moving image from said display means after displaying said third moving image on said display of said light sensing means.

5. A data communication system that transmits a moving image from a data transmitter to a data receiver comprising:

said data transmitter including

a first source for supplying image data of a first moving image, and a second source for supplying digital data,

an image data encoding means that encodes, each unit time, said digital data as the color of part or all of said first moving image based on said digital data that is input to the said image data and generates a second image data, and

a transmission means that transmits said second image data; and

said data receiver including a potable terminal, the portable terminal including

a reception means that receives said second image data for playing a game on the portable terminal,

a display means that displays a second moving image based on said second image data, said second moving image including said digital data being encoded as the color of part or all of said first moving image data,

a light sensing means that senses a part or all of said second moving image displayed on said display means, said light sensing means having a display assembled therein,

a digital data decoding means that detects the change each unit time in the color of part or all of said second moving image sensed by said light sensing means and decodes and generates said digital data, and

means for displaying a third moving image on the display of said light sensing means,

wherein said third moving image displayed on said display of said light sensing means is generated based on said digital data that is decoded by said digital data decoding means and said third moving image includes a game character for playing the game based on said digital data.

6. The data communication system as described in claim 5, wherein said color change at least one of the elements hue, brightness, and chroma changes.

10. A data communication system in accordance with claim 5, wherein said third moving image is displayed on said display of said light sensing means after said light sensing means senses a part or all of said second moving image displayed on said display means.

11. A data communication system in accordance with claim 10, further comprising means for removing said second moving image from said display means after said third moving image is displayed on said display of said light sensing means.

12. A data communication system in accordance with claim 5, wherein said light sensing means is a portable communication terminal which includes storage means for storing one or more images displayed on said light sensing means display.

7. A data communication method comprising the steps of:

generating a second image data by encoding digital data as the color of part or all of a first moving image is changed in each unit time based on said digital data that is input to image data of said first moving image;

displaying said first moving image on a display means based on said second image data;

sensing the light of part or all of the first moving image displayed on said display means, and

detecting a change in each unit time in the color of part or all of said second moving image whose light is detected, and decoding the digital data, the second image for playing a game on a portable terminal,

wherein said sensing is performed with a light sensing device having a display assembled therein and means for displaying a third moving image on said display of said light sensing device, and

wherein said displaying of said third moving image on said display of said light sensing means is generated based on said decoded digital data and said third moving image includes a game character for playing the game based on said decoded digital data.

8. The data communication method as described in claim 7, wherein said color change at least one of the elements hue, brightness, and chroma changes.

13. A data communication method in accordance with claim 7, further comprising the step of removing said second moving image from said display means after displaying said third moving image on said display of said light sensing means.